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In South Goa, BJP's Pallavi Dempo challenges Congress's Viriato Fernandes with 'nari shakti' focus. The Navy veteran sees it as 'money vs people's power'. High voting in key areas may sway the outcome.

It’s no secret that salcete has traditionally been a Congress bastion, with the taluka’s eight assembly constituencies making the grand old party a formidable force in the S Goa parliamentary election. However, things have changed, and now, with three constituencies represented by BJP MLAs and one independent supporting the BJP govt, it remains to be seen whether voters will follow their MLAs’ lead and cast their vote for the BJP candidate

salcete, a former Congress bastion, experiences a shift with BJP's growing influence. The South Goa parliamentary election highlights key candidates and historical trends shaping the political landscape in the region.

Almost 1,500 liquor licences have been issued in Goa since April 2020, an average of more than one a day. Most of these were issued in Bardez (393), followed by salcete (367) and Mormugao (137). During this period, the government rejected 50 such applications.

The annual power shutdown by the electricity department in South Goa on May 21 is having a cascading effect on other utility services, including the internet. In fact, regular electricity supply to the salcete taluka has also been erratic.

The crime branch of the Goa police on Wednesday arrested nine people, most of them from northeast India, for allegedly running a fake call centre in the salcete taluka and duping US nationals by posing as loan officers of US banks.

The southwest monsoon may have failed to keep its date with Goa in June, but the first week of July saw it unleash its fury on the state. The strong winds and heavy showers have claimed lives, destroyed homes, pulled down massive trees, crushed vehicles, and triggered landslides, with no part of the state spared.

Less than 12% of Goa's schools are unaided, but at least for the primary section, enrolment in these private institutions has surpassed the numbers in government and even government-aided schools. The directorate of education's education statistics report has revealed that 21,568 children study in unaided schools, while 19,638 in government schools.

As Goa has received poor pre-monsoon showers and the arrival of the rains has also been unusually delayed, it has raised concerns about the availability of raw water in the reservoirs